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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Wrecks Interrupted
Thursday, September 17, 2009
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- Amanda said...
That is awesome!! Too funny!
- September 17, 2009 at 5:34 PM
- :::b r a n d i::: said...
Ha! That's hysterical!
- September 17, 2009 at 5:35 PM
- Monica Benavidez said...
That is hilarious!
- September 17, 2009 at 5:40 PM
- Tiffany said...
way funny! where does this stuff come from?!
- September 17, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Love it!
- September 17, 2009 at 6:10 PM
- Slamazon - The Phoenix said...
Okay, #1 - you are awesome. #2 - Kanye is a D!(K.
- September 17, 2009 at 6:17 PM
- K. said...
That is so hilarious! I laughed out loud :-)
- September 17, 2009 at 6:26 PM
You can take a quiz on facebook called "When will Kanye interrupt you?!" - September 17, 2009 at 6:28 PM
- Anne said...
What a riot!!!
- September 17, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Ha Ha!
-Michelle - September 17, 2009 at 6:39 PM
- Misty said...
Hee Hee...that is really funny! Love it.
- September 17, 2009 at 6:41 PM
- Suzanne Dargie said...
Whoever made this is very witty! I laughed too!
- September 17, 2009 at 6:58 PM
- sophanne said...
Now I want to see THAT on a cake.
- September 17, 2009 at 7:09 PM
- Dakota said...
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! - September 17, 2009 at 7:19 PM
LOVE IT! - September 17, 2009 at 7:28 PM
- Terry Lee said...
it's too soon. ;-)
(heeheehee) - September 17, 2009 at 7:30 PM
- Laura said...
Mark my words, "Kanye Interrupts" is on it's way to Rick Roll status.
- September 17, 2009 at 7:49 PM
- GJC said...
That is TEH AWESUM.
WV: aquebacc "Perhaps Kanye would be less of a buttmunch if he didn't smoke so much of the aquebacc-y." - September 17, 2009 at 8:02 PM
- Suzi said...
Ummm, yeeeaahh, he isn't going to live that one down for a looooonnnggg time.
- September 17, 2009 at 8:22 PM
- Unknown said...
Just what he needs - more publicity. When will people realize how this all works?
- September 17, 2009 at 8:29 PM
- Melissa @ Huckleberry Prairie said...
hahaha! YES!
- September 17, 2009 at 8:46 PM
- VeggieT said...
Hmm, Do I want to know?
- September 17, 2009 at 9:02 PM
- Jacqueline said...
Jen! I cannot seem to email you, so I wanted to post here in case you see this. Do you watch Glee? There was an AWESOME cake wreck on it this week. They gave a guy who had cut off his two thumbs a cake with "two thumbs up!" Soooo wreckalicious!!!
Love the site. Love the wreckage. Love that it makes me pee in my pants with laughter! - September 17, 2009 at 9:05 PM
- Unknown said...
I hate that Kanye got all the publicity when Beyonce had all the class. And this is freaking hilarious!
- September 17, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Jacqueline-saw Glee and that cake wreck and I thought of this site. lol
Anyway....the Kanye interrupting is hilarious.
Rashelle - September 17, 2009 at 10:28 PM
- Elizabeth Douglas said...
This is one of the best things I've ever seen...ever.
- September 17, 2009 at 10:51 PM
- Soin said...
lol ..hilarious..
- September 17, 2009 at 11:31 PM
- Unknown said...
- September 17, 2009 at 11:38 PM
- Jennifer W. said...
This is so tacky, but I'm gonna share anyway...I got a text yesterday that said,
'Today Kanye West interuppted the funeral of Patrick Swayze to announce that Michael Jackson's death was better!'
Horrible, but too stinkin funny!
Jen - September 18, 2009 at 12:45 AM
- hoppytoad79 said...
You win the internets!
- September 18, 2009 at 3:36 AM
Funniest. Non-cake. Joke. EVAR!
He deserves whatever he gets! - September 18, 2009 at 7:01 AM
Funny! I like this one: http://kanyegate.tumblr.com/
- September 18, 2009 at 8:39 AM
- Tia said...
*snort!* :D
- September 18, 2009 at 10:28 AM
- Sheila Bennett said...
Hilarious!! I've shared that site with several friends now, and everyone gets a big laugh out of it. :)
- September 18, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Yeah.....I'm SO gonna pull up my hubby's favorite website with this on it before he comes home for lunch today!
- September 18, 2009 at 11:11 AM
- Mandi said...
What? Alix, Kanye Hater, didn't comment on this yet?? woah.
- September 18, 2009 at 11:56 AM
- Katy said...
ROFL I'm waiting for the cake version.
- September 18, 2009 at 1:05 PM
I defended Kanye the last time he came up, but he's reached a level of jerkery that even I can't THIS IS A GOOD COMMENT, IMMA LET YOU FINISH, BUT BEYONCE LEFT ONE OF THE BEST COMMENTS OF ALL TIME
- September 18, 2009 at 1:39 PM
- Crazy Crafter Kitty said...
- September 18, 2009 at 2:27 PM
- BLAM! said...
I sense an internet meme being born... o:
- September 18, 2009 at 5:16 PM
- NYCGirl said...
Jen, thank you! I was trying to remember where I'd seen that quote.
- September 18, 2009 at 7:08 PM
- Start To Finish Supplies said...
That is awesome! I am going to have some fun with that one!!
- September 19, 2009 at 9:43 PM
I got this at school in the computer lab. My teacher was looking at me funny. - September 21, 2009 at 3:26 AM
- docreport said...
To funny!
- September 28, 2009 at 11:20 AM
- Livin_in_Cin said...
Jen - now you need to stab Kanye through the heart with a carrot jockey, or bludgeon him to death with a CCC or foot cake... Taylor Swift should have beaten him to death with her spaceman statue...
- October 16, 2009 at 2:29 PM
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In something that was a bit of a surprise, even to me, Tapestry won a Duke's Choice award for innovation at this years JavaOne.
They gave me a big, wacky Duke statuette (photos to follow). I mean, I'm going to have to hire a pack mule to get it back to Portland. I also had a chance to chat with James Gosling about Java. I complimented him on the language and told him how much fun I'm having with it, which he seemed to like. On the other hand ... when I mentioned wanting "all the goodness of Java, but a little less typing", ala Ruby, he went a little cold. I didn't realize until this moment that he might have thought I was referring to object typing (an issue for another day) when I was, in fact, talking about keystrokes!
Meanwhile, I had to drop off the statuette in the room, so I've probably missed the Java bloggers meetup at the Thirsty Bear. We'll see if I can catch the end of that.
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I recently attended the 2013 Alaska Youth for Environmental Action's (AYEA) Civics and Conservation Summit where I learned about talking to legislators, how a bill passes and many more skills. I am extremely concerned about House Bill 96, which calls for labeling children's products that contain toxic chemicals.
One may think "who could ever oppose the ban or labeling of toxic chemicals?" Unfortunately, some legislators feel the government should not interfere with consumers' purchases. How about protection? Alaska deserves the security in knowing that future generations will be protected. How about fairness? What's fair about toxic toys, or not even knowing which toys are toxic? This bill helps ensure that our children have the freedom to grow up healthy.
So where are the labels? Bring on the labels. I love and value my community; I want everyone to live toxin free. I want to feel safe drinking out of my water bottle or storing my lunch in a container. I want clean food, I want clean fish, and I want to breathe deep and know that the air is clean.
It shouldn't be on the consumer to figure out what's toxic and what's not. The responsibility should be with the companies that manufacture our products to not use toxic chemicals in the first place, but, unfortunately, that's not the way is.
Alaska's youth are under assault on all fronts from toxic chemicals. We the people need to step up, make some noise, and advocate change. This bill needs bipartisan support and a committee hearing. Let's put some pressure on the House. Call Representative Olson, the chair of the committee, and email the legislators.
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To illustrate we will consider a Tungsten master/slave configuration. (Sample setup instructions here.) In this example MySQL-based web sales data upload to a data warehouse. The master receives constant updates, which then apply at controlled intervals on the slave.
The first step is to turn off the slave replicator. Login to the prod2 host and execute the following command.
$ trepctl offline
The prod2 slave will disconnect from the master as well as the data warehouse. Updates now accumulate on the master. We can turn on the slave to fetch and apply them all, then go offline again using one of three methods. The first method uses the current sequence number on the master. Here are sample commands to fetch and apply all transactions from the master up to the current master position.
$ trepctl -host prod1 status |grep appliedLastSeqno
appliedLastSeqno : 19600
$ trepctl online -seqno 19600
$ trepctl wait -state OFFLINE -limit 300
As you can see, the first command locates the master sequence number. The second command tells the slave to go online and replicate to sequence number 19600. Finally the third command waits until either slave is back in the offline state or 300 seconds elapse, whichever comes first. This is not strictly necessary for replication but is very handy for scripts, as it eliminates a potentially awkward polling loop.
The second method is to use the MySQL binlog position on the master. The idea is the same as the previous example. We get the master binlog position, then tell the slave to apply transactions to that point and go offline. Here's an example:
$ mysql -utungsten -psecret -hprod1 -e 'show master status'
| File | Position | Binlog_Do_DB | Binlog_Ignore_DB |
| mysql-bin.002023 | 92395851 | | |
$ trepctl online -event mysql-bin.002023:0000000092395851
$ trepctl wait -state OFFLINE -limit 300
Note in this example that you must pad the binlog offset out to 16 digits, which means you must add the extra zeros shown in bold. Tungsten compares native replication IDs as strings, so that we can handle other databases besides MySQL. This normally a minor inconvenience, unless you don't know the trick. In that case it could be a bit of a head-scratcher.
There is a final way to implement batch replication using Tungsten's built-in heartbeat mechanism. With this method we insert a named heartbeat event on the master, then ask the slave to replicate until the heartbeat appears. Here's an example:
$ trepctl -host prod1 heartbeat -name batch1
$ trepctl online -heartbeat batch1
$ trepctl wait -state OFFLINE -limit 300
This method is perhaps the simplest of all, because there is no need to check for either sequence numbers or binlog offsets on the master. The only downside is that you must have a master and a slave replicator to use it. It does not work with direct replication, in which a single replicator moves data from the master DBMS to the slave. (This limitation will be removed in the future when Issue 228 is fixed.)
When using any of these techniques, we may want to know whether Tungsten will really go offline at the correct point. Fortunately, there's a simple way to find out. The trepctl status command shows pending requests to go offline. Let's say you check status after requesting the slave to replicate to a heartbeat as in the previous example.
$ trepctl status
Processing status command...
---- -----
appliedLastEventId : mysql-bin.002023:0000000104369615;37978
appliedLastSeqno : 220126
appliedLatency : 470.589
offlineRequests : Offline at heartbeat event: batch1
state : ONLINE
timeInStateSeconds : 2.436
uptimeSeconds : 1742.0
Finished status command...
It is simple to see from the status output that Tungsten will go offline when it sees a heartbeat named batch1.
As this article shows, the trepctl online and trepctl wait commands make it very simple to implement batch replication. You can simplify still further by wrapping the commands in a short script written in your favorite scripting language. Either way you have a handy solution to a problem that affects a diverse set of applications.
As this article shows, the trepctl online and trepctl wait commands make it very simple to implement batch replication. You can simplify still further by wrapping the commands in a short script written in your favorite scripting language. Either way you have a handy solution to a problem that affects a diverse set of applications.
This is not the end of Tungsten features to enable batch replication. Tungsten has a new applier that can submit transactions using CSV files, which is critical to load transactions quickly into data warehouses. We have been testing it out with Vertica, where early results show that it improves load performance by a factor of 100 or more in some cases. I will describe this new feature in an upcoming article.


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The Mick is a no-holds-barred single-camera comedy that gives new meaning to the phrase "dysfunctional family." MACKENZIE aka "MICKEY" (Kaitlin Olson, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia") is a brash, two-bit hustler from Rhode Island who has spent her entire life shirking any semblance of responsibility. Lacking any drive, but in constant search of the next easy payday, Mickey is not without her charms. She's smart, she's fun, and despite all appearances, her head's always in the game. She just needs a big win. That win kinda, sorta comes true when, looking for a handout, Mickey visits her estranged sister and billionaire brother-in-law in Greenwich, CT, but gets more than she bargained for, as this absurdly rich couple flees the country to escape federal fraud charges.
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The price? Transforming these outrageously spoiled children into honest, hard-working, decent members of society – something this foul-mouthed, debaucherous and completely out-of-her-element woman knows absolutely nothing about. Being a mother was never in Mickey's game plan, but these kids desperately need a parent. And as irresponsible as Mickey has been her entire life, she may discover that responsibility and motherhood aren't the buzzkill she always thought they would be.
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Lighting for Tomorrow 2013 Awards Announced!
The winners of the much-anticipated annual Lighting for Tomorrow competition were announced at the American Lighting Association (ALA) Conference in Lost Pines, Tx., and included both companies that are not widely known in the residential side of the lighting industry as well as those more familiar to distributors.
Lighting for Tomorrow is a design competition that challenges manufacturers to meet consumer expectations by improving the design of their products and technologies while achieving new heights of energy efficiency. At the same time, sponsors want to increase market acceptance and awareness of emerging opportunities in energy-efficient lighting.
Judges were reportedly impressed by the 2013 Lighting for Tomorrow entries, especially by the increasing variety of LED retrofit products as well as the range of submissions designed to replace the household incandescent bulb, and the high-performing LED retrofit kits for existing ceiling fixtures. The lighting control winners proved to be "smarter" than ever before, displaying features such as self-calibration and interfaces with personal communication devices. In the emerging OLED category, the submitted luminaire designs demonstrated the potential for high-quality, energy-saving residential lighting applications.
Entries for the 2013 Lighting for Tomorrow competition included indoor and outdoor LED lighting fixtures, replacement lamps, fixture retrofit kits, lighting controls and – for the first time – organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting fixtures. The judging panel met in June at the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) University in Research Triangle Park, N.C., and reviewed 123 products comprised of 70 LED indoor fixtures, 8 LED outdoor fixtures, 26 LED bulbs, 9 LED retrofit kits, 7 lighting control devices, and 3 OLED fixtures.
The winners in the LED Fixtures category are:
Legrand's adorne™ undercabinet lighting system, which also received an Innovation Award from the judges to recognize the inventive, holistic system approach embodied in the product.
Juno Lighting Group's Juno Arc™ LED Trac Fixture
Liton Lighting's 2-inch Mini-Arc Recessed LED Downlight
Philips Consumer Luminaires North America's LED Pendant Holder
Samjin Lnd. Co.'s Circular Ceiling Light
Receiving Honorable Mention are Edge Lighting's Scope LED Pendant, Juno Lighting Group's Cylindra Miniature LED Trac Fixture Series, Prism Co. Ltd.'s TLC-4300BK Desk Lamp, and WAC Lighting's LED Picture Light. In addition, Juno Lighting Group received Noteworthy Recognition for its Sloped Ceiling Generation 3 LED Downlight.
In the Retrofit category, the winners are:
Evolution Lighting LLC's Zoom Retrofit
Nesora Light Technologies' Integra LED Disc, which also received an Innovation Award in acknowledgement of the product's impressive output in light distribution.
In the LED Replacement Lamp category, the winners are:
LEDnovation's Bright for Life® BR30 LED lamp
SWITCH Lighting's SWITCH infinia 60 LED A lamp
Honorable Mention in the LED Replacement Lamp category goes to Illumination Machines'AtrialLight™ and Noteworthy Recognition goes to Acuity Brands' Acculamp Dimmable PAR38.
In the Lighting Controls category, Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. receives the Winner distinction for its Maestro® Occupancy Sensor C.L.® Dimmer and Noteworthy Recognition for its Hi-Lume® A-Series LED Driver.
The OLED Lighting Fixtures category Winner is the Vela Chandelier by Modern Forms: A WAC Lighting Company.
Winners will be showcased in Lighting for Tomorrow awards brochures plus featured in journal articles and trade show exhibits throughout 2014. To download these publications, for information about where to purchase these products, and for complete details about the competition, visit www.lightingfortomorrow.com.


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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy says one of two U.S. warships dispatched to the Black Sea before the Sochi Winter Olympics is being inspected for damage after it ran aground at a Turkish port last week.
The frigate USS Taylor ran aground Feb. 12 as it was preparing to moor at Samsun, Turkey, about 230 miles southwest of Sochi. The Navy says the Taylor was able to dock without further incident and no one was injured.
The Taylor and the USS Mount Whitney were sent to the Black Sea in early February. The deployment was announced after an uptick in reports of security threats against the Olympics, although the Pentagon said the U.S. warships were deployed as part of normal military planning and could perform any required missions, including communications or evacuations.


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Andouille Pudding
- 2 teaspoons unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 pound Andouille sausage, chopped
- 1 cup chopped onions
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 5 large eggs
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 3 cups milk
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 8 cups 1-inch cubes French bread or homemade-style white bread
- 8 ounces white cheddar cheese, grated (about 2 cups)
- Butter a 2 1/2- to 3-quart baking dish with the butter and set aside.
- Heat the oil in a large, heavy skillet over medium-high heat and saute the andouille until beginning to brown on all sides, about 4 minutes. Add the onions and celery and cook, stirring often, for 4 minutes, until soft. Add the garlic and cook for an additional minute. Remove from the heat and set aside.
- In a large bowl combine the eggs, cream, milk, salt, cayenne and black pepper, and mix well. Add the bread, andouille mixture and half of the cheese. Fold the ingredients to mix thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Transfer the mixture to the prepared baking dish and sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until golden brown on top.
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Technologies inside: Industrial identification success factors
Siemens Simatic MV400 are for optically readable codes or optical character recognition (OCR); Siemens Simatic Ident readers/writers include the product family Simatic RF.
Industrial code readers include Siemens Simatic MV400 for optically readable codes or optical character recognition (OCR) and radio frequency identification (RFID) readers/writers of the Siemens Simatic RF product family from the portfolio of industrial identification systems Siemens Simatic Ident. They offer trouble-free identification process—even during fluctuating process conditions, such as concerning marking quality, lighting conditions, or product position.
With the Siemens systems, a switch between two RFID technologies can be carried out without having to modify the PLC programming. Basis for this is the use of a standardized function block in the engineering software Simatic Step 7.
Devices by Siemens support the connection via Profibus and Profinet.
The readers of the product family Simatic MV400 can automatically detect the presence of a code in the image area (AutoTrigger). AutoTrigger is particularly useful for applications where reliable triggering is difficult or extremely expensive due to missing varying product characteristics.
Code readers of the Simatic MV400 series support the integration of visualization into already existing human-machine interface (HMI) devices. As a result, separate visualization hardware is not needed for the identification technology, reducing construction costs, the space requirement, and the wiring of a plant.
Siemens optical readers make using the integrated user interface—either as stand-alone application or as integrated component of a plant user interface—extremely easy with an integrated Web server.
With the high-performance systems (RFID and optical readers) from the industrial identification portfolio Simatic Ident by Siemens, the customer can freely choose between the basic technologies and their corresponding device infrastructure.
– Michael LaGrega, MCSD, RFID+, is RFID and code reading systems engineer, Siemens Industry. Edited by Mark T. Hoske, content manager CFE Media, Control Engineering, email@example.com.
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CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — A New York woman was found guilty Friday of killing her husband, then dismembering and burning his body.
Rose Chase sat stoically as an Ontario County Court jury foreman announced the verdict.
After more than four hours of deliberation over two days, Chase, 32, of Seneca, was convicted of second-degree murder for the death of Adam Chase. She was also found guilty of tampering with evidence and endangering the welfare of a child.
"Justice was done, my son (can) rest," Adam's mother, Silvia Chase, said after the verdict was announced. She said although she never could have envisioned her son dying at the hands of his wife, she also never doubted that her daughter-in-law of 11 years would be convicted of the crimes.
The jury reached its verdict after watching more than an hour of the videotaped interview of Rose Chase by investigators with the Ontario County Sheriff's Office.
Jurors agreed that Rose Chase pushed her husband down two flights of stairs, killing him, as the couple argued in their home in Seneca on June 14, 2012, then hid his body in the basement for several months. She dismembered, then burned his remains and scattered his bones on her mother's property in Potter. Police found his remains six months after his disappearance.
Rose Chase had lied to police and others about his whereabouts for those six months.
She explained her actions to police in the recorded interview, admitting that she wasn't happy in her marriage and had repeatedly had affairs. She also confessed to killing Adam Chase.
Rodney Miller, a longtime friend of the Chase family and a private investigator from Gorham, had tipped off deputies once he convinced Rose Chase to confess.
"Without Rodney (Miller) we wouldn't be here today," Silvia Chase said. "He's the one who found him. He never gave up."
Miller said he knew when Adam Chase disappeared that the circumstances weren't right. He said he knew Adam was dead.
"She's going to go where she belongs," Miller said of Rose Chase. "I'm ecstatic. In my heart I knew God was going to take care of me. He helped me find Adam."
Ontario County District Attorney Michael Tantillo said he thought the videotaped confession was a key piece of evidence, "but the work of Rodney Miller was fantastic." Miller's doggedness and continued pressure from the Chase family caused Rose Chase to confess, he said.
Defense lawyer Catherine Walsh on Thursday argued that Rose Chase never meant to harm Adam as the pair argued, but after he fell, she panicked. Walsh argued during summations that Rose Chase thought her husband was dead when she moved his body to the basement. She admitted she pushed Adam Chase down the second set of stairs, but "you cannot kill a dead person."
Patricia Mooney, Rose Chase's mother, left the courtroom in tears Friday afternoon.
"They had a broken marriage," she said and added that she thought evidence was left out of the case — such as concerns that her daughter had become suicidal.
"I love my daughter," Mooney said. "I'm a mom. I'm going to always love my daughter, no matter what."
Tantillo said Rose Chase will face 15 years to life to 25 years to life in prison on the murder charge, and potentially an additional 1 1/3 to 4 years to life on the tampering charge. Judge William Kocher will decide whether those terms will be served consecutively or concurrently at her sentencing, on Jan. 15.
Silvia Chase and her husband, Lindon Chase, have temporary custody of their grandson Trysten, who is now 6. They plan to create a memorial for their son.


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Does the silence from the Obama Administration about Brunei's decision to enact Sharia laws against homosexuality reveal a disturbing double-standard of the US government?
Or could this just another example of the kind of CIA miscalculation that has plagued the agency for decades?
On April 22 2014, some of the most extreme anti-gay laws came into effect in the tiny Sultanate of Brunei. The Southeast Asia nation has enacted punishments mandated by Sharia law for a number of offenses, including same-sex-activity. For crimes of a sexual nature, stoning to death- as well as slicing selected parts of criminal anatomy- will be a newly adopted method of punishment under the new laws. These laws will be gradually phased in over the next few years.
"Rape, adultery, sodomy, extramarital sexual relations for Muslims, insulting any verses of the Quran and Hadith, blasphemy, declaring oneself a prophet or non-Muslim, and murder are the other offences for which the death penalty could be applied under the revised code."
Although tiny country
is predominantly Muslim (67%) there are also Buddhists (13%), Christian (10%)
who will from now on be obliged to live under Sharia laws.
In point of fact, the Koran has this to say about the law when it comes to homosexuality.
If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning, Most Merciful (Sura al-Nisa' 4:16)
So, it would seem laws that require punishment are, strictly speaking, interpretations of the Sharia law and not based on what the religion actually dictates anyway. (But that's a matter for Koranic scholars to argue about.)
In any case, the United Nations Human Rights strongly
condemned the new laws as a violation of human rights. Rupert Colville,
spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Colville said,
"Application of the death penalty for such a broad range of offences contravenes international law."
Colville pointed out other problems with the new laws.
"Stoning to death, under international law, constitutes torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and is thus clearly prohibited,"
Additionally, he noted that the "criminalization and application of
the death penalty for consensual relations between adults in private also
violates a whole host of rights, including the rights to privacy, to equality
before the law, the right to health and freedom from arbitrary arrest and


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My friend Dana gave me three adorable newborn onesies for The Acrobat, and Annie is very interested in them. She currently LOVES hearing about when she was a baby, so when I told her that she was once so small that a newborn onesie was baggy on her, it blew her mind. She's excited to start picking out things for her baby brother.
Are you an expecting or new mom that lives in the LA area? I have a pair of tickets to give away to Jayneoni's Boom Boom Room Baby Room event (you can also buy tickets at this link). It is THE ultimate celebrity parent hang-out before the Golden Globes! I will be speaking during one of the parenting seminars, and Annabel will be there with me, too! I've gone the last few years and you don't want to miss out. To win, just leave a comment telling me that you live in the LA-ish area. Winner will be chosen via random.org, contest closes tonight at midnight. Good luck!
UPDATED! We have a winner!
Congrats to Barbara! And congrats to all of you expecting mamas!


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CLEVELAND – Growing up in Ohio, Ben Roethlisberger knew all about the Steelers-Browns rivalry, once the NFL's nastiest, inter-division spats.
It used to be a somewhat fair fight. But he has tilted the series almost single-handedly.
Pittsburgh's quarterback carries a 15-1 career record against the Browns into Sunday's matchup between teams hanging on the fringe of the AFC playoff race.
Browns linebacker D'Qwell Jackson knows that despite Pittsburgh's record and any rumors swirling around Roethlisberger and his future, that as long as the imposing No. 7 is under center, the Steelers (4-6) are to be taken seriously.
"He's had a great career over there," Jackson said. "We know we're going to have our hands full."
Following a 0-4 start, the Steelers (4-6) have turned their season around and can move themselves closer to playoff contention by beating the Browns (4-6), who are still smarting from a disappointing loss last week in Cincinnati. Cleveland scored the game's first 13 points before unraveling in the second quarter, when the Bengals blocked two punts, scored on a fumble recovery, scored 31 straight points and coasted.
Roethlisberger passed for 367 yards and four touchdowns last week in a win over Detroit. The strong performance helped subdue talk fueled by a recent report the 31-year-old will seek a trade in the offseason. Roethlisberger dismissed the notion, saying he wanted "to be a Steeler for life."
That's not comforting to the Browns or their fans, who have only celebrated five victories over Pittsburgh in 30 games since 1999.
To stop the Steelers, the Browns must slow Roethlisberger — and that's never easy.
Ray Horton, Cleveland's defensive coordinator, spent seven seasons on Pittsburgh's staff and knows firsthand how tough the 6-foot-5, 240-pound Roethlisberger is to handle.
"I don't think there's been a quarterback in the league that has taken unabated shots and shrugged guys off, made more big plays, than Ben in the history of the league," Horton said. "I told our players, he was a shortstop in baseball; you'd think he would be a pitcher. He was a point guard in basketball; you'd think he would be the center. And he punts left-footed. So this guy is the most athletic guy that we'll face, meaning total package of completeness."
Horton marvels at Roethlisberger's ability to turn a broken play into a big gain to his receivers.
"He's a unique guy," he said. "They're a unique bunch in that their wide receivers thrive on getting open after contact and going up the field and creating plays that are really school-yard basketball plays: Go behind the Subaru and take a left, and I'll hit you. They make a ton of big plays that way."
Jackson said it took him a few years to completely understand how important the Pittsburgh-Cleveland rivalry is to both cities. He's expecting the usual brawl.
"You know you have to bring your lunch pail, you have to bring your big-boy pants and it's going to be a dogfight," he said.
Here are five other thing to watch as Pittsburgh and Cleveland meet for the 121st time:
BOOMERANG BROWNS?: Last week's 41-20 loss to the Bengals was somewhat demoralizing for the Browns, who let their biggest game since 2007 slip away with a series of miscues in the second quarter. Coach Rob Chudzinski is confident his team can bounce back.
"We're focused," he said, "and there's always a little extra highlight when it's Pittsburgh."
POSTSEASON HOPES: With the season winding down, every game takes on added meaning and this week's loser will likely fall from the playoff chase. The Browns, who haven't made the postseason since 2002, are entering a stretch of three home games in four weeks, while the Steelers will follow their trip to Cleveland with one to Baltimore.
NO ORDINARY JOE: Browns cornerback Joe Haden has spent the season shutting down opponents' No. 1 wide receivers. This week, his assignment is Antonio Brown, who leads Pittsburgh with 74 catches for 952 yards.
Haden limited Bengals wide receiver A.J. Green to two catches for 7 yards last week and has not given up a touchdown to six former Pro Bowlers this season.
LET IT SNOW: The weather forecast is calling for temperatures in the mid-20s and a chance of snow. Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon, who grew up in Texas, said catching a frozen football is no easy task.
"It's definitely hard," he said. "You have nothing protecting your hands and they kind of go numb. Your toes go numb. I've been trying to get used to it, practicing out here without an undershirt on and it still won't compare to it."
FRIENDLY RIVALS: For Horton, the matchup with Pittsburgh creates a meeting with his mentor, Dick LeBeau, the Steelers' long-time defensive mastermind.
Horton spent seven seasons working under LeBeau, who coached him in Cincinnati and is already in the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player.
"I carry some of the life lessons I've learned from him into my life and instilled into my children and my coaching career," Horton said. "Probably everything that I am, he's a big reason why."
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63rd Venice Film Festival: A Practical Guide
Screening Venues
- Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema): Passholders and members of the public;
- Sala Volpi (Palazzo del Cinema): Passholders and Invitation-holders;
- Palabiennale (Tendostruttura, Via Sandro Gallo): Passholders and members of the public;
- Palalido (formerly "Palagalileo"): Press Passholders, Industry Passholders and Industry Operatives;
- Sala Perla (Casinò): Daily Press Passholders
To ensure the safety of all Festival attendees, access to the venues of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival will be strictly limited to controlled entry points only. The areas surrounding said venues will be closed off to all vehicular traffic until Tuesday, September 12, 2006. Attendees will not be permitted to take bags into the venue areas. No audiovisual recording or photographic equipment will be permitted in the screening areas. Bags can be checked-in at a designated bag storage area.
Public-Access Structures and Services
- Maxi-Screens: Three Maxi-Screens will be set up for public viewers, thanks to the kind collaboration of Eye Candy: The screens will be located in front of the Palazzo del Cinema, at Palalido and in the Square in front of the Casino.
- MovieVillage: A Movie Village will be operational in the Square in front of the Casino extending to the Garden Event area. Here, actors and directors can meet members of the public, associations can showcase their activities, home-video stores can market rare and hard-to-find videos and DVDs. The Movie Village is designed as a commercial and entertainment complex which will host stands from the world of cinema and movie-making, a selection of eateries including a restaurant open until 2:00 a.m., ticket offices, internet stations and information desks for last-minute hotel reservations and hospitality services.
- Spazio Nikki Beach: This new event location at the circle in front of the Casino was designed by Nikki Beach as a venue for meetings, presentations and interviews in collaboration with RaiSat and RTL 102.5. Inside, a restaurant open to the public will be operational late into the night.
- Pagoda: This round structure, located in front of the Hotel Des Bains, will once more become a focal point of nighttime entertainment.
- Intensified Ferry Services: In addition to the newly-introduced ferry Route 20 in operation since June 15 to provide a ferry connection between the Film Festival area and the city of Venice proper, there will also be a dedicated direct ferry service to the Festival area. Festival-goers can avail of this rapid service every 20 minutes (3 trips per hour; 150 places on board per trip) from Venice Railway Station and calling only at Piazzale Roma (car depot) – Zattere – San Zaccaria – Lido Casinò. Rapid services will be operational until 12:00 Midnight. Between Midnight and 2:00 a.m., the ferry service will make 4 tips. After 2:00 a.m., there will be a further 2 trips. Where necessary, ferry service will be guaranteed until the end of the last screening to enable film-goers to attend late-night screenings and make the trip back to their bases in Venice and Mestre on the mainland.
Structures and Services for the Press and professionals
- Passes: Press, Industry and Cinema Passes can be picked up on the 1st Floor. A service desk will be operating on the right-hand terrace from 9.00 a.m. on August 29, 2006.
- Press Office: The Press Office is located on the 3rd Floor of the Palazzo del Casinò.
- Press Room: A dedicated Press Room is located on the 3rd Floor of the Casinò. This year, 80 workstations are available for writing and forwarding texts and images. There is also a specially designated area for Wi-Fi enabled laptops.
- Festival Press Conferences: Official Festival Press Conferences will be held on the 3rd Floor of the Casinò. Conferences on films participating for awards in Venezia 63, on non-competing films and on films in the "Orizzonti" section, will be held each day starting at 11.00 a.m.
- Conference Photo-Calls will be held on the terrace, 3rd Floor of the Casinò. The 3rd Floor is also the location for exclusive interviews on the Wella TV-Call broadcast on RaiSat and on the Wella Radio-Call broadcast on RTL 102.5 which are made possible thanks to the generous sponsorship of Wella.
- Terrazza Martini: This Hotel Excelsior location which serves as a prestigious backdrop for interviews with writers and for presentations is available also this year thanks to ongoing collaboration with Martini & Rossi.
- A Photo-Journalist & Telereporter Support Center will be operational on the 3rd Floor of the Casinò. Support and equipment rentals will be available from Canon Professional Service.
- Press Boxes: Approximately 1,800 electronically-operated mail boxes will be operational on the Ground Floor of the Palazzo del Casinò. These will be used to distribute Press Books and Festival Communication and Documentation to the Press.
- Photo – Image CD – Audio Clip – TV Clip Pickup Point: Photographic, audio and visual materials can be picked up on the Ground Floor of the Casinò, next to the Press Box area. Image excerpts from selected films will be available to the Press on the image.net website.
- Industry Office: The Industry Office at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival will be open to producers and industry operatives from September 1 through September 8. Market Screenings will be held in the Zorzi and Pasinetti Rooms at the Palazzo del Cinema, and at the Videobox at the Palazzo del Casinò. The Industry Lounge with Terrace, located on the 1st Floor of the Casinò, will be open to all Industry Passholders. Facilities available include a Business and Information Center, Internet stations, wireless Internet access, an Open Bar and a Meeting Desk. The Buyers Lounge, located on the Ground Floor of the Hotel Excelsior, will be available for meetings reserved for Buyers, Sellers and their respective Guests. Facilities include Internet stations, wireless Internet access, an Open Bar and a Meeting Desk.
- Biennale Westin Card: A dedicated access key will give Industry Passholders access to a designated Industry Lounge at the Westin Excelsior Hotel in Lido di Venezia. The Industry Lounge serves as a location for informal and business meetings for audio-visual operatives right in the very heart of the Festival, on the Ground Floor of the Hotel Excelsior. Cardholders will also be entitled to a 20% reduction on Restaurant prices and Hotel beach facilities.
- LidoPass: Venice Lido has put together a number of services that are useful to Festival attendees. Access to those services has been packaged in one single card. The Lido Pass card will be available to Press Passholders, Industry Passholders and Exhibitors at the Movie Village. Lido Pass entitles holders to discounts and privileges at shops, restaurants, pizza restaurants and various services on the Venice Lido island. Lido Pass was made possible thanks to the coordination of Oltrex and collaboration with AVAL, the Association of Hoteliers in Venice Lido.
- Catalogues: The Film Festival Catalogue will be on sale at Electa Bookstores located in the atrium of the Casinò and next to the external ticket office in the square opposite the building entrance.
- Spazio Electa: Film Festival merchandising will be on sale at this location, opposite the Casinò.


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The DIGI-FLO® F-1000 Series from Blue-White Industries, of Huntington Beach, Calif., provides the performance and features of electronic meters without the need for an electrical hookup. Three versions are offered. The F-1000RB is a battery powered rate meter, the F-1000TB is a battery powered flow totalizer, and the all-new F-1000RT is a battery powered Rate Meter and Flow Totalizer. Two standard AAA batteries with a minimum life of one year power the units. Saddle mount style units are also offered.
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Opera swallows mobile ad manager
They've got to make money somehow
Opera Software has bought up mobile ad broker AdMarvel, joining Apple and Google in the rush to push advertising onto our mobile phones.
Financial details of the deal haven't been revealed, but Opera will take complete control of California-based AdMarvel with a view to carving itself a space in mobile-advertising, before Apple and Google divide it between themselves.
Opera Mobile is, without doubt, one of the best mobile browsers, but it's also handed out free by the company. It clearly isn't making enough money charging manufacturers to pre-install the software, and so plans to expand its mobile advertising capabilities.
Opera has always maintained that advertising within its browser will be limited to providing links to partner services, such as the default Google search that comes embedded in the address bar of Opera Mobile 10. But the company also claims that end-users will always have the ability to remove such links or alter them - on the basis that few users ever bother and thus the advertising is non-intrusive.
Opera's Turbo service routes sessions though the company's servers, in theory enabling Phorm-esque tracking and advertising placement, should Opera decide to offer such a thing in exchange for greater browsing speed. AdMarvel has traffic management and analytic software which would fit well with such an offering, with the customer able to opt out (or in) as they wish.
Certainly it's the tracking and management of mobile advertising that Opera will be interested in from AdMarvel, and while greater targeting may come later, the important thing now is to have an offering in place.
Opera is no stranger to taking on big players. On the desktop its free browser still competes with Firefox and IE, but one has to wonder if taking on Apple and Google at the same time isn't a step too far. ®


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NBA Star Nick Young -- I'm No Rapist -- It's Not My DNA
NBA Star Nick Young I'm No Rapist It's Not My DNA
Ex-Philadelphia 76ers star Nick Young couldn't possibly be guilty of raping the woman who's suing him, because his DNA doesn't match the DNA police collected from her ... according to documents Young just filed.
In Young's legal response to his accuser ... he says the lack of DNA evidence should be enough to dismiss her sexual battery lawsuit -- and further, he claims the woman is just making a money grab.
As TMZ first reported back in May ... the woman claims Young drugged her and raped her after they met at Crown Bar in West Hollywood.
Police felt there were a lot of holes in her story, and dropped their investigation, but she promptly filed a civil suit against Young.
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TEPHRA commits to making its best efforts to avoid any errors in the Website Content. In any case, TEPHRA shall be exempt from any liability arising from possible errors in the Content shown on the Website, provided it is not liable under current legislation. TEPHRA reserves the right to interrupt access to the Website, as well as the provision of any or all of the Content provided thereon, at any time and without prior notice, whether for technical, security, control or maintenance reasons, or faults in the power supply. Consequently, TEPHRA does not guarantee the reliability, availability or continuity of the Website or Content; therefore, Users use them at their own risk and liability and may not demand liability for the discontinuity or lack of availability thereof. TEPHRA shall not be responsible for any interruptions to the Website or other inconveniences caused by reasons beyond the control of TEPHRA, and/or due to fraudulent or negligent actions by Users and/or caused by force majeure. In any case, whatever the cause, TEPHRA shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, or consequential damages, and/or loss of earnings. TEPHRA shall not be liable for damages of any kind that may be caused by the lack of veracity, accuracy, thoroughness and/or the updated nature of the Content transferred, disclosed, stored, made available or received, obtained or accessed via the Website, or for any Content provided or offered by third parties or entities. TEPHRA shall attempt, as far as possible, to update and rectify any information on its Website that does not comply with its minimum guarantees on accuracy. TEPHRA shall not be liable for damages of any kind that may be caused by the presence of a virus or other harmful elements in the Content that alter computer systems, or the documents and systems stored thereon, provided that it is not liable under current legislation. TEPHRA accepts no liability for Users using the Website or its Content in a way that breaches any type of national or international regulation, intellectual or industrial property rights, or any other right of third parties. Nor does it accept liability for any security errors that may be caused by using outdated versions of browsers, or for the consequences that may arise from browser misuse, whether due to an incorrect configuration, presence of a computer virus or any other cause not attributable to TEPHRA. TEPHRA reserves the right to block and/or expel Users who use the Website incorrectly. Unless expressly stated otherwise in these Terms or under current legislation, TEPHRA shall not accept any liability for the following losses, irrespective of their cause:
i. Loss of income or sales;
ii. Loss of business;
iii. Loss of profits or contracts;
iv. Loss of anticipated savings;
v. Loss of data; or
vi. Loss of management time or office hours.
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The User may not make undue use of this Website by intentionally introducing viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs or any other technologically damaging or harmful program or material. The User may not try to gain unauthorized access to this Website, the server on which this Website is hosted, or any server, computer or database related to our Website. The User undertakes to not attack this Website through a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. Breaching this clause may lead to offences as described in applicable legislation. We will inform the competent authorities of any breach of said regulations and will cooperate with them to discover the attacker's identity. Also, anyone in breach of this clause will immediately no longer be authorized to use this Website. We shall not be liable for any damages or loss resulting from a denial-of-service attack, virus or any other program or technologically damaging material that may affect your computer, IT equipment, data or materials as a result of using this Website or downloading content from it or those to which it redirects.
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Our obligations will be understood to be suspended while the Force Majeure event is happening, and we will be allowed to extend the time in which our obligations must be fulfilled by a period as long as the duration of the Force Majeure event. We will use all reasonable means to bring the Force Majeure event to an end or find a solution that will let us fulfil our obligations despite the Force Majeure event.
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The lack of requirement on our part for strict compliance on your part with any of the obligations assumed by you under these Terms, or a lack of exercising on our part of the rights or actions that correspond to us under said Terms, shall not constitute the waiving or limitation of said rights or actions, nor exonerate you from fulfilling said obligations. No waiver by us of a specific right or action shall entail a waiver of other rights or actions derived from the Terms. A waiver any of these Terms shall not be legally effective unless it is expressly established that it is indeed a waiver, the waiver is formalized, and you are informed in writing, as established in the Notifications section above.
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These Terms and any document that is expressly referenced herein constitute the full agreement between you and us with regard to the purpose thereof and they replace any other prior pact, agreement or promise made between you and us, whether verbally or in writing.
All questions or issues that arise between TEPHRA and you that are related to the interpretation, adherence to and validity of these Terms will be governed by these clauses and, for what is not foreseen in these clauses, in accordance with Spanish legislation; the parties expressly submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Spanish courts. Should the User be a consumer, nothing in this Clause shall affect the statutory rights you have, as recognized in any applicable legislation in this area.
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To build or repair a car, you generally need to know a fair bit more than just how it works. Yet today we seek to repair brains ravaged by disease in the absence of any real knowledge about how they work, and only a sparse knowledge of how they are built. Transplantation of stem cells or tissues alone is not sufficient to restore function in diseases or injury. New neural components — wetware or hardware — must be integrated in a way that augments existing function, and permits them to successfully compete for resource and control.
What we do know is that the population of the developing cortex by its cellular inhabitants is a mass-migratory event that proceeds with the utmost of precision. A recent publication in Cell uncovered a few of the molecular players in this game. The paper sought to reveal how developments ultimately shape the unique structure of the cortex through the manipulation of tractile and tensile forces. In probing these components, researchers stumbled upon one that makes a mouse brain turn out decidedly more human in appearance.
Highly convoluted and richly textured, the exterior surface of the human brain is instantly recognizable. Nothing says "what a marvelous structure" like a deeply-fissured glob of goo. There are individual differences, but the basic plan reliably emerges in development, day in and day out. With the advent of MRI scanning, we have discovered that, occasionally, people are born with a smooth cortex as a result of certain genetic mutations. For them, severe neurological impairment and early death are inevitable.
The new research reported in Cell, builds on the earlier thesis work of Ron Stahl, who previously demonstrated that the protein product of a gene known as TRNP1 programs cells either for continued multiplication, or to turn into a mature cell which is done dividing. Working together with Magdalena Götz in Munich, they now show how TRNP1 is involved in the specification of radial and tangential expansion of discrete regions of growing cortex.
They also show that one of the main regulatory points is controlling the number of scaffold cells called radial glial cells. These cells are the among the first to populate the cortex, creating, in effect, a rough blueprint for the brain. These cells normally set up an elaborate trusswork upon which neural cells migrate, much like the support lattices frequently installed for growing tomato plants.


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If I run a SQL Server database backup via Management Studio and there are scripts running at the same time, does the backup reflect the point in time when the backup was started or when it ended? My db is about 10GB so the backup takes some time, meaning there's lots of things that could go on in the meantime.
I'm using SQL Server 2008 R2
I just posted this question in SO but think this is probably a better place for it?


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What kinds of party favors should we give out?
Giving out party favors is a nice way for your guests to remember the night and to show your appreciation for their attendance. Some favor ideas include customized champagne flutes, a picture frame with a photo of the couple, a CD with songs from the era of when the couple first met, chocolates, candles, cute salt and pepper shakers, a bottle opener, and nice personalized pens.


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Up front: September 2011
Face value
Chivalry is not dead, but it nearly killed me. Here's how it happened.
A year ago, I started this column with a description of a place on the Maine coast my wife and I visit most summers: "Forged by a half-billion years of folding and faulting from continents colliding, heat so intense it lends credence to the concept of hell and pressure that stretched, twisted and thrust them to the surface to be scoured by glaciers, the rocks that ring Orr's Island are still a work in progress, worn by waves that pound them, etched by ceaseless tides scratching their crevices." Add to the forces that have had their impact on them: my face, after I toppled head-first onto one last month, ripping and smashing my nose and slashing my brow. Since we were on vacation, I won't deny that alcohol was involved, but not in the quantity to call it the culprit. I blame the manners my momma beat into me so long ago.
We had arrived at the majestic old house my friend Doug Warren's family owns on the island that evening just before supper, having driven up over the course of three days with our 8-year-old grandson, stopping to show him Antietam, the Civil War battlefield in western Maryland, and Mystic Seaport in Connecticut along the way. After a leisurely meal, the adults — Doug and his wife, Jane and I and two other couples who also were houseguests — walked down to watch starlight play on Casco Bay. My butt was firmly ensconced on a bench above the rocks when I noticed one of the ladies sitting on the ground. I offered her my seat. She demurred. I insisted.
Standing up to make way for her, I lost my balance. As I tottered backward, her husband grabbed my shirt, spinning me around. That probably saved me from bashing the back of my head and ending up with a concussion. Or maybe breaking my neck. The boulder my face bounced off lay about 2½ feet below where my feet had been.
I don't recall much pain and stayed lucid — well, as lucid as I normally am, though I missed getting to see two of the women whip off their T-shirts to wrap around my head to stanch the bleeding. The local rescue squad arrived with a stretcher, and following my first ride in an ambulance, an emergency-room doc stitched up my nose and forehead. After a radiologist in Australia read my CT scan, my wife drove me back to the island in the wee hours of the morning.
Rather than teaching my grandkid how to catch stripers and blues and eat lobster and about the other wonders of coastal New England, I spent a lot of time in bed icing my face and watching the blood pooling in my cheeks turn an amazing array of colorful hues. Now back home, waiting for the swelling to subside and cartilage to heal before having surgery to fix my nose, I can't help but smile when I look in the mirror. The scars I see, like everything else about this, could have been a lot worse, and I'll always have them to remember what I did on my summer vacation and, in the bigger scheme of things, what a lucky man I am.


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- Q&A: I'm considering allowing my high school student to attend online school, but I'm concerned if cheating is an issue.
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Online schools offer unique opportunities for students of all levels and backgrounds.
The world of online education continues to expand at an incredible pace. According to the Sloan Consortium, approximately 6.7 million U.S. college students had enrolled in one or more online courses in the fall of 2011, up by 570,000 students just one year prior. This upward growth has steadfastly continued from 10 years ago when just 1.6 million students had enrolled for at least one course online. As well, nearly 70 percent of higher-education leaders now say that online learning comprises a critical component of their long-range planning. This compares favorably to a decade ago when less than 50 percent of educators indicated online learning comprised a part of their long-term goals.
OnlineSchools.com features tools and resources that help both students and parents navigate the world of online education. Utilizing this site's information on distance learning and available programs, prospective e-students can research the pros and cons of online education and make informed decisions about their academic future. OnlineSchools.com helps visitors explore online institutions by providing lists of high schools and colleges nationwide that offer virtual learning. Working to help you narrow in on options that fit your educational needs, OnlineSchools.com includes state pages that feature regionally-relevant options for both high schools and colleges as well as dedicated directories for each grade, kindergarten through 12th.In order to facilitate the search, OnlineSchools.com offers "Report Cards" on a wide range of schools, allowing both students and parents to compare facts and features from prospective schools all in one place. Visitors can even submit questions to online education experts or peruse previously-administered advice through the "Ask" feature. For up-to-date information on virtual instruction and educational technology, students can check out the blog that addresses a number of online learning issues or the "In Focus" content section that highlights emerging developments in online schooling.
At any stage of academic development, there are multiple advantages to pursuing an online education. Because it has no geographic restrictions, online learning gives every student access to educational opportunities. Those located in rural areas, far from brick-and-mortar schools, can receive instruction from the comfort of their own home. Additionally, students with limited mobility, or those who travel frequently, can log on to classes over the Web from anywhere they're able. For students interested in both online and classroom learning, some schools offer hybrid, or blended, programs, which alternate between on-campus and virtual sessions.
Most online colleges allow students to access lectures and coursework anytime from any location offering an Internet connection. This flexible scheduling offers students with career or family obligations the opportunity to pursue degrees at night or on the weekends without taking time out of their busy day. Courses are typically delivered live or pre-recorded in audio or video formats, and, as with traditional classes, students must submit assignments and take exams based on predetermined deadlines. For the most part, students often learn at their own pace, completing projects and progressing through the curriculum independently, or sometimes in small groups.
At the K-12 level, online learning can provide challenges to students in need of accelerated learning, those who need to catch up on credits, or those who simply want to develop time management and attention skills. Some K-12 online programs even offer customized education plans for students by assessing their particular needs and tailoring instruction accordingly.
Interested in taking the next step? Explore OnlineSchools.com and find a program to help meet your personal and academic objectives.